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    BAKU PUTTING TOGETHER LIST OF ENEMIES
    by Sokhbet Mamedov

    WPS Agency
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    August 31, 2009 Monday
    Russia

    MILITARY DOCTRINE IS EXPECTED TO BE SUBMITTED TO AZERI PARLIAMENT IN
    AUTUMN; After some delays the Azeri parliament will look into adopting
    the country's military doctrine

    The work on the draft of this conceptual document on opposition to
    threats and measures to ensure the country's defensive capability
    has been done for some time, still, its adoption has been postponed
    several times in recent years.

    Azerbaijan has been without a military doctrine so far. Still, taking
    into account the country's objectives - the return of territories
    occupied by Armenia, resisting external threats, protecting areas of
    national interest - for which more and more money is being allocated
    each year, they began putting together just such a document. The
    draft is ready, but it failed to pass the parliament. According to
    independent military expert Uzeir Dzhafarov, the main reason for
    the delay in adopting the doctrine is the political factor. "The
    document should name the countries Azerbaijan sees as friendly and vice
    versa. If we do that, we may find ourselves in disfavor with countries
    like Russia, Iran, and such like", thinks the expert. Dzhafarov was
    a member of the Azeri defense ministry military science center in
    2003, and participated in putting together some of the details in
    the military doctrine.

    Most analysts agree to this view, and that Armenia should be named
    an aggressor.

    Despite the furor whipped up by the opposition media regarding whether
    or not the doctrine would be adopted in autumn, it turned out the
    document had not been presented to the parliament. "This project has
    not been officially submitted and reviewed by the experts from our
    committee", said the opposition parliament committee member Panakh
    Guseyn. As to the reasons for the delays in the process, he thinks
    they highlight the complexity of the problem.

    "It is no secret Azerbaijan is in a complex geopolitical region, and
    the military-strategic resources are such that the country's defense
    depends on both the armed forces and how well the participation in
    the system of international relations has been conceived", said Panakh
    Guseyn. He agreed that the question of which countries would be named
    potential enemies would be the most interesting to the document,
    and said, "I do not believe any other country would be named, other
    than Armenia".
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